Former President Donald Trump addressed the Republican Jewish Coalition on Thursday and claimed that if Vice President Kamala Harris wins in November, Israel will no longer exist.
“If Kamala Harris wins, terrorist armies will wage an unceasing war to drive Jews out of the Holy Land,” Trump said.
He told the conference attendees that they should tell other Jewish Americans who support Harris not to vote for her. “They have no idea what they’re getting into if she becomes president. Israel will no longer exist,” Trump said.
Harris has been part of an administration that has provided a constant flow of weapons to support Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza. She also pledged the arms shipments will continue if she’s president, but Trump and other Republicans have accused her and President Biden of “abandoning” Israel.
In his speech, Trump signaled that he would provide strong support for Israel’s onslaught in Gaza. “I will support Israel’s right to win its war on terror. We have to win, and we will win fast,” he said.
Trump also bragged about the steps he took to support Israel during his time in office, including moving the US embassy to Jerusalem and recognizing the Israeli annexation of the Golan Heights from Syria, making the US the only country to do so. “I got it done in 15 minutes, they were negotiating it for 52 years. Nothing was going to get done without me,” he said.
The former president said Jewish Americans who don’t vote for him should get their “head examined,” something he’s said repeatedly while on the campaign trail. “I don’t understand how anybody can support them, and I say it constantly. If you have them to support and you were Jewish, you have to have your head examined,” he said.
https://forward.com/fast-forward/649830/david-friedman-book-donald-trump-israel-wes-bank-annexation/
The silly season is upon us, and the baloney wars have just begun. They load the baloney guns and fire at will, and we must duck as best we can.
Yea. Like the old song says… "We all gotta duck, when the shit hita the fan."
Oscar Mayer becomes part of the Military-Meat-Industrial Complex.
When I was a kid, he came to my town, Weinermobile and all. I wish I had kept my whistle.
This moment is brought to you by,: whoever that can pucker up the most.
Trump vs Harris, is like Netanyahu vs Hitler, whoever wins, HUMANITY Loses! Vote OUT all the Rep/Dems/Zionist!
Democrats and Republicans are ass backwards genocidal monsters; Write in Nobody or Uncommitted for a nonviolent revolution leading to a new nonviolent nation.
LOL. You actually believe that by writing in uncommitted is going to change things.
¿Quien sabe? It will be interesting if no genocidal brainwashing monster wins.
There will be a winner regardless of how many uncommitted votes are casted. If you don't believe me, read the constitution on how a President is picked.
You're right Timmy, either way genocide wins.
That's exactly why we need a new non-violent nation and a new capitol. I suggest southwest of Joplin, Missouri.
This time I suggest we use tornado-proof ferrocement rather than copy the Romanesque slave-powered style,
Socialism will eventually prevail
It ferls like Netanyahu vs Netanyahu. Win guranteed.
Humanity has already lost big time.
That's why you guys should have a socialist option
Except your Corporate Fascist élite wouldn't allow it. Elon, Soros, Zuckerberg, they represent American Coroporate Fascism
The people must take arms!
Corporate fascism is just another variety of socialism. The difference is that the head looters are called “CEOs” instead of “commissars.”
Socialism has no commissars. That’t communism.
Actual communism would have no commissars, because it would have no state. Socialism a la the Soviet Union was supposed to be an intermediate state — a dictatorship of the proletariat — between capitalism and the withering away of the state, per Marx. Of course the opposite happened. Commissars were the result of the (inevitable) deformation of the dictatorship of the proletariat into substitution of the party for the proletariat.
Do some other socialist systems use terms other than “commissar?” Sure. Some even use “Chief Executive” — for example, Amanda Pritchard, commissar of health care in England. Or “Commissioner” — for example, Martin O’Malley, commissar of pensions in the US.
Communism relies on capitalism to survive. It differs from what we know about capitalism in that the owner is the state vs individual ownership in the U.S.. China, however, has a hybrid form.
So when you write "actual communism," are you referring to something akin to the "primitive communism" that Marx claims is the beginning or the withering away of the state communism, that Marx claims is the final stage of socialism after the dictatorship of the proletariat.
The Marxian Stages
Primitive Communism
Feudalism
Capitalism
Socialism, aka pure democracy, aka the dictatorship f the proletariat
Egalitarian Communism
Lenin is responsible for revolutionary socialists calling themselves communists. He did so in order to sharply distinguish the Bolsheviks from Mensheviks, who were the Girondins of the Russian Revolution.
That rhetorical sleight of hand stuck, and to my mind that became "actual communism" whereas Marx's whithering of the state communism is still just a marxist theory.
That's a materialist view of the history of the term.
Rhetoric is often referred to as an art and in the case of the term "communism", Lenin's art overuled Marx's science in the real world use of the term.
Confusion reigns ever since };-)>
I’m referring to Marx’s claimed end condition — the state withers away as the workers increasingly, and finally totally, operate as a commune.
I thought so.
I was just commenting on the etymological origins of the term’s ambivalence, with an attempt at ironic humor about the material analysis of “communism.”
One other other Irony is that in the USSR, the state did whither, to a great extent, but the result has been increasingly oligarchic capitalism complete with the requisite dictatorial state.
I’m sometimes not very good at catching ironic humor, especially on weekends 😀
You’re right that the Soviet state did “wither” before its collapse, but it did so in the same way as Joe Biden. Brezhnev was 76 when he died, Andropov was almost 70 when he got the top slot, and Chernenko was nearly 75. Gorbachev was an attempt to inject some “young blood” into the leadership, but even if that would have worked, it was just too late.
I think Burnham’s notion that everything was devolving toward managerial statism was correct. While Stalin’s USSR, Mussolini’s Italy, Hitler’s German, Franco’s Spain, Churchill’s England, FDR’s US, etc. were different, they did seem to be part of an ever-narrowing managerial/bureaucratic continuum. From a practical rather than theoretical standpoint, socialism (like other systems) proved unable to thwart that narrowing.
“I think Burnham’s notion that everything was devolving toward managerial statism was correct.”
I basically agree, with the caveat that But the capitalist oligarchy is at the top rung that bosses the managers.
We’re discussing James Burnham, right? Too bad Burnham was hip deep in the Company’s Congress for Cultural Freedom bullshit. CD Jackson, a CFC handler for the CIA, referred to Burnham as “a very articulate expounder of the ‘dirty tricks department’ ” and recommended him for Government work. ( Francis Stonor Saunder’s The Cultural Cold War: The CIA in the World of Arts and Letters, p. 152).
Jackson was also Gloria Steinem’s handler/paymaster in the late 50’s when she ran a CIA front group that targeted liberal college students for recruitment. She recruited Alice Walker, Zbignew Brzezinski & Barney Frank among many others.
(See Hugh Wilford’s The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America.
As a side note to a side noter, Jackson, in one of his other roles in Luce’s empire, purchased the rights to the Zapruder Film for Time Life.
Finally Jackson was the American co-Founder of the Bilderrberg Group.
And actually, he and John McCloy were both CIA and above patrons of Gloria Steinem and McCloys Wall of Shame is much larger than Jackson’s, but the CA sun is not allowing me to write more. It’s calling me.
Another note, terms of material analysis of ideological terms, Chinese Communism is by by many magnitudes “actually existing communism,” … with with Chinese chractetisrics
Burnham was an interesting fellow — he went from leader of America’s Trotskyists to OSS/CIA guy to founder of National Review (and its brand of “national security state conservatism”) in the space of a couple of decades. I can’t say I’m a fan of Burnham as such. I just think that his analysis in The Managerial Revolution was astute.
It appears that the National Review was basically founded by CIS/OSS guys.
Of course, one could just as legitimately say that WAPO basically has been run by OSS/CIA guys since the end of WW2, when Eugene Meyer bought it and gacve it to his daughter Katherine’s hubby Phil to run.
Do you know about Phil Graham and his Tuscon speech, where he spilled the beans on Mockingbird and rattled off a list of JFK’s lovers, including Mary Meyer, while addressing a major journalist convention?
He was forced off stage, sedated and straightjackeied. A presidential jet was dispatched and he was flown to Chesnut Lodge, the sanitarium where they used to send Military/Intel insiders.* On a visit home with Katherine, he died of what was claimed to be a self-inflicted small gage shotgun wound to the head.
Lots of other staff was OSS. Katherine the Great by Deborah Davis is essential reading on Wapo, US intel & the JFK assassination. Most of the first print was shredded due to court action by Katherine, but a second edition was published a few years later and is readily available.
*Allan Dulles went to therapy there. “The ‘queen of Chestnut Lodge’, as people called her, was Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, [wife of Erich] a founder of the Frankfurt Psychoanalytic Institute who lived on the grounds of the Lodge in a cottage that had been built for her…Alan Stone, a former president of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), described the Lodge as “the most enlightened hospital in North America.” He told me, “It seemed like Valhalla, the residence of the gods.” see https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/oct/11/psychiatry-wars-psychoanalysis-antidepressants-rachel-aviv
“It appears that the National Review was basically founded by CIS/OSS guys.”
At this point, there’s no doubt about it. For many years, William F. Buckley Jr. referred mostly non-specifically to what he did in WW2, saying merely that he was in the “infantry.” In fact, he was in the OSS, and Burnham (with whom he co-founded National Review) was his recruiter and superior.
Gerontocracy was not one of Marx’s Stages of Development };-)>
Burnham’s either.
Of course one thing Marx couldn’t account for was computerization.
Marxism postulates that class is defined by the relationship to the means of production. What effect has widespread computerization of the means of production, not to mention trade and finance, had on class relationships.
Per Marx, the the adoption of farming created Feudalism, along with serfs and lords
The Industrial Revolution created Capitalism with its factory owners and factory workers.
It’s not clear yet what new class relationships the networked computing revolution -which includes cell phones- has created, and I haven’t found much written about the topic.
Perhaps networked computing will provide a means to something like Marx’s communal communism.
I assume you’ve read, or at least heard of, Bastani’s Fully Automated Luxury Communism? I’ve only read summaries of it, but I just purchased it and intend to read it soon.
Have not. Will check it out.
Affirmative action for the corporations and the donor class.
Let's hope the second part of Trump lie comes true…!
Ha. Don't worry. Harris is on board for more of the same ol imperial ambitions and weapons sales.
IKR? He is campaigning for her now?
Yes…! and with these statements, the low confident Delusional is actually helping her win…!
Well, he has RFK, Jr. "working for him", the guy whose daughter said he cut off the head of a whale with a chainsaw. RFK, Jr. apparently has a fetish for road kill as well. A Jeffrey Dahmer II.
Ha. Don't worry. Harris is on board for more of the same ol imperial ambitions and weapons sales.
Another Israel hater.
Hating mass murderers is a virtue
QED hating Israel is a virtue.
Death to Israel!
Even H*tler does not look so bad anymore after Gaza and the WB.
The US is responsible for the deaths of millions of Muslims.
The US has had an incredibly pernicious effect on Islam. Since, WW2 In addition to all the war deaths, the US has systematically opposed, undermined and overthrown many democratically elected heads of State in Muslim nations, usually destroying democracy in the process.
Imperial arrogance weaponizes the ruse that Uncle Sammy is a champion of democracy and freedom. Uncle Sammy says, “We’re gonna free the shit out of Gaza.”
Freedom is a Zio-word for killing all you choose
Killing every Palestinian you see.
And Killing them was easy cause
Uncle Sam paid the dues
Killing them was good
Godd enough for Bibi & the Zio-Nazis
With deep apologies to Kris K };-)>
It’s a racist imperialist con and always has been. It hides the dictatorship of the capitalist militarist imperialist ruling class, but its not hiding it very well any longer.
The outstanding coverup and protection the US Biden administration and congress provides plus all the previous coverups of previous administrations makes them active participating war criminals. Not only complicit, no, they are active war criminals bathed in blood.
Hell! Even just the stuff they openly admit to makes them war criminals, but Uncle Sammy says, “No prison’s been built that can hold me!”
I asked some of my friends in my Lviv (Львів) if they thought Biden was equally complicit in genocide as Israel in the Israeli-Palestine War.
Our of 50, 44 said yes, and 4 said unsure, and 2 said no.
The 2 are my douchiest friends so they just answered the opposite of my question so we can discount them.
We in Ukraine know what it feels like to try and get extirminated. You can kill of whole family lines, you can turn whole cities into rubble, but wanna know what remains?
Our spirit
The spirit of determination and resistance to exterminaion
Glory to Ukraine!!
Glory to Palestin!!
If I lived in Ukraine, as you claimed, that last thing I would want to do is trash Biden. Ukraine will disappear and become part of Russia without US support. You need to pay attention to what Trump thinks about NATO and Russia.
Screw America, we don't need your pathetic excuse for a nation. Where's your culture? Being fat and dumb? Being the World Police? We have a culture and a people. America was founded by literal english people. Might as well go back home to England.
and i will NEVER
NEVER
NEVER
see Kiiv or Kharkiv or Lviv fal under the Rus
NEVER
Our exporting "freedom" has killed millions, made more millions refugees. The U.S. of Amnesia is the template that the Zionists in Israel are following. Netanyahu has brought that up several times.
Socialism will eventually prevail
Do you hate both Israel and the USA equally? Or do you hate one more than the other?
I hate you the most };-)>
Timmy Bloody Timmy.
You seem reasonably intelligent.
How can you support Israel’s slaughter in Gaza?
I hate the US empire.
The USA is my home, and has been my family’s home since the 17th century. A JacK Mormon friend researched my paternal lineage back to what is now Orange County, NY. As far as I cane tell, none served in the military, I didn’t and my son won’t either, although I expect he’ll attend Stanford, or an Ivy like his dear old dad.
The US will be a better place when the US empire is no more, or does Uncle Sammy plan to take the world with him?
US out of the middle east!
BTW Timmy, did you know you’re posting at an anti-war site.
It’s right there in the site name, sport.
Her's a little ditty I'd like to dedicate to all the bloody boys in the IDF. Hope you'll like it.
Bibi & his Zio-Nazis..with deep apologies to Kris K };-)>
Freedom's just an IDF word for killin' who you choose
Killing any Palestinian you see
And killing them is easy cause, they're not Likud.
Killin' them is good enough for Bibi.
Good Enough for Bibi & his Zio-Nazis.
My great grandfather's brother and sister died in a concentration camp.
My grandmother then serves as a anti-Soviet anti-German partisan under Bandera
She had to hide her Jewish identity for fear of getting murdered of course, but she believed in Bandera more than Stalin or Hitler.
Germany was a rotten state during WW2. I know that doesn't mean that Israel is angelic, because they are also little devils, but Germany was on a different level.
There is a similarity between the towns next to the camps and the towns next to the Gaza camp. In both the occupants lived wonderful lives, while not intuiting what was going on in the camps. The movie Shoah, there was a poignant point when occupants in the town next to one of the NAZI camps were asked about the camp, how they could not know what was going on. I paint the Israeli society of today very much the same.
Well at least you admit it.
I’m proud of it, Timmy.
Are you proud of the IDF bravely killing tens of thousands of women and children in Gaza?
Timmy Bloody Timmy!
"A poll conducted by the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) at Tel Aviv University, released last month, revealed that a majority of Israelis oppose the prosecution of soldiers responsible for raping Palestinian prisoners. "
What's not to hate?
Death to Israel!
As long as there is an Israel there will be no peace in the middle ME.
Neither Trump nor Harris can change that. The Zionists are in control not an American president. They do as Tel Aviv tells them like demented Biden does.
I'm Jewish so I don't want Israel to die but they should definitely be demilitarised and de-apartheidised and make the Likud and any far-right xenophobic parties illegal..
And then give the Negev to Palestine so the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are connected. Also, force Israel to give the Golan Heights back to Syria
I agree. Peace, brother.
Wanting Israel to be demilitarized is the same as wanting Israel to die. Just like demilitarizing Ukraine would quickly lead to Russia taking over Ukraine.
Lucky for Israel, Israel was smart enough to acquire nuclear weapons which will prevent your plan from happening. Too bad Ukraine was not smart enough to keep the nuclear weapons they had when the USSR broke up. Keep those weapons, change out the control systems and Russia would have never invaded Ukraine. But Ukrainians were not that smart.
Looks like Timmy snapped cuz he realised the stupidity of supporting the Apartheid state
We coulda never changed the nuclear codes anyways, so get that fantasy out of your head. We didn’t know how to use them even if we did by a miracle change the codes. There was no point in keeping them.
I do not hate Israel. I hate the Zionists in Israel with a purple passion. Zionism, in the form of the Likud Party has succeeded in rendering the Israeli society quiet sick, so sick, that 94% of Israeli society has been all in on the genocide, with 60% wanting the killing of Palestinians to move at a faster pace.
Keep telling yourself that if is makes you feel better. But your posts clearly show that you hate Israel. Just admitted like others do on this website.
I read up on AIPAC and apparently you guys are screwed no matter who wins..
Good luck, Амеріка!!
AIPAC is a foreign agent that passes out millions then hints at what they want the recipients to do with the millions. Kennedy wanted its birth mother, the AZC, to register as a foreign agent.
Oh
Not as screwed as your are if Trump wins. If you don't speak Russian, you should start to learn it this November if Trump wins. You will need it. How long can Ukraine hold out without USA support? I'm betting 3 months.
No way i’m learning the language of the Russkies.
Maybe you should start learning Spanish or Chinese if I learn Russian, because you guys are pretty inept at dealing with your own problems, stupid America.
And Im in Lviv you idiot
If only americans like you bothered to look at a map
Voting for the 'lesser of two evils' is still voting for Evil.
Yeah… I agree. Do you vote for Satan 1 or Satan 2? It's a hard decision. …Satan 1 or Satan 2? Please help me. …Seriously. Should I vote for Satan 1 or Satan 2?
"Don't blame me – I voted vote Kodos !"
LOL. By the way, don’t blame me. I voted for the other Satan. No, not that one. The other one.
AH ! Miroslav Satan, former Buffalo Sabres player ! Good choice.
😂 I had to Google him.
I’m still enraged that a) he never wore #66 and b) he didn’t demand a trade to the New Jersey Devils.
Kodos the Executioner?
Naw, man – one of the two Treehouse of Horror aliens from The Simpsons.
Didn’t you never see that ToH where Kang & Kodos replace Clinton and Dole ? “IT’S A 2-PARTY SYSTEM – YOU HAVE TO VOTE FOR ONE OF US !” and just offstage, an angry H. Ross Perot punches a hole in his campaign hat ?
I don’t watch The Simpsons.
HOW COULD YOUUUUUUUUUUUU??
Ah, I didn't know who you were talking about. I'm a "Family Guy" man myself.
Pea. Tear. Umm, ummm…Gryphon.
(Also top-notch show!!)
Great episode.
Oh yeah I watched it in Ukrainian and English! Kang and Kodos are some of the best recurring characters in my opinion and i don't know why.
I think because, like Deadpool and Rick from ‘Rick & Morty’, Kang & Kodos realise that they’re fictional characters able to break the “4th wall”.
Your choice this year:
A. Guy who already sold his soul to the Devil…
B. Lady who is about to…
LOL. I learned something today. Are you saying those two Demons can sell their souls to the Devil? I thought he already owned both of them and all the people around them.
uhmmmmmmmmm
Which one is doing a better job at pretending they AREN't satan?
Socialism is the only true good
Nonsense. Israel is for Biden-Harris what "Palestine" once was for the UK namely a beach-head ally for controlling Jordan, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. One difference is that we do not need to keep our troops there which might get blown to pieces by a hotel-bombing.
Our choices are between a cackling bitch and a bumbling moron. And that's an improvement form the last election.
No need for bitch versus moron. Either "bitch" or "moron" works for both.
And these choices will continue to be similar in 2028, 2032, 2036, etc…! Unless the third or independent party systems would revitalize in US…!
SOCIALISM
If the hegemon lasts that long. Maybe a parliamentary democracy would make a third party possible.
And they're both Zionists and corporate fascists
But at least one will give us more aid without forcing us to surrender.
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Hopefully Trump changes his mind on us.
"But at least one will give us more aid without forcing us to surrender."
Right. She'll continue with using your country as fodder with the stated goal of "weakening" Russia. Why are you so blind? We let you dangle as our congress used you as a political football. We encouraged you to do a counter offensive that we admitted we wouldn't have done without air support. We accused you of being casualty adverse when your platoon commanders complained about his men getting killed by mines because you didn't have adequate mine clearing equipment. Our politicians said the billions we have sent you in aid was a "good investment" because it diminished Russia's military and they didn't seem to give a rat's ass that your infrastructure was being destroyed in the process. And the minute things get too hot for our liking, we'll dump you in a New York minute. That's who we are.
We are a sovereign nation and nobodys toy so stop acting like we are.
How can you be so blind as to just ignore a full scale invasion of a country? Just because we aren’t their lackey? I’d rather be an American state than a Russian oblast’. And above that, i’d prefer a fully restored Ukrainian state
But you could have had it if Biden had let you. Ukraine could have been neutral and prosperous like Austria. The Minsk accords were ready to be implemented, the offer was on the table again in March, but the London Boris came to Kiev bringing Biden's no-no message to let Zelensky know, not yet, Biden was not ready. Now it is too late, the only choice left is an unconditional surrender, the American way. Not a beep from Harris/Trump, because demented Biden is still president until Jan. 2025.
Are you Ukrainian? Just because of the name.
But anyways, we are not surrendering, much less and unconditional one, considering the Orcs of Mordor Federation only controls 20 percent of our land.
PS: I hope I can say Orcs of Mordor Federation without getting warned. I’m just referring to a fine piece of literature
Ukraine became a toy with the Obama/Biden regime change in 2014, and a de facto NATO member and a new civil war made it so.
Even the neighbordhood idiot knows that the revolution was done by Russia.
At best it will end up to be a failed state.
A little dog normally does not provoke a bigger dog. But the little guy believed and trusted the big dog, the big dog would help him if help was needed. That was a big mistake.
Neoliberal capitalism is not what it is made out to be, just as disappointing as the big dog.
I just gave you several examples as how the US is using you. I'm not "acting".
And how did what I say make me blind to your country being invaded? I gave you quotes in another comment section where your own President gave reasons why Russia invaded and he actually said:
“Security guarantees and neutrality, the non-nuclear status of our state — we’re ready to do that. That’s the most important point … they started the war because of it.”
And I've said all along that Russia should completely withdraw from ALL of Ukrainian. But that would only be possible if those security concerns that Zelensky readily admitted to were addressed.
OK, I still don’t think we should be invaded because of our poltical leanings, however.
If Germany invaded Hungary because Orban has a ticket up Putin’s pants, would that be ok? No! Of course not!
There should be peace, but Russia needs to let go of its revanchism. It’s already home to enough ethnic groups who want their own things as it is.
And you probably wouldn't have been invaded if diplomacy wasn't ruled out before the invasion.
Russia didn't invade Ukraine because Zelensky had a ticket up Putin's ass (whatever that means).
And the US/NATO has got to stop the belligerence that has been ongoing towards Russia for 30+ years. Things didn't change from the day before the invasion.
Yes, and neither has Russia. I agree that diplomacy wasn’t given enough of a chance, but Russia has NEVER lost their soviet-era revanchism. Even in the 1990’s, Russia under Yeltsin was making no secret that they wanted Crimea back. We gave our nukes to Russia in return for territorial integrity, and Russia made other promises to not infringe on us
In our constitution in ’96, we did say we’d be neutral. However, we amended it, like you guys do with yours. We also in 2010 ruled out having NATO in our national security package, but we never ruled out joining NATO.
If Russia wants Crimea because they speak Russian, then half of Russia would be independent republics, on linguistic purity.
I don't live there. I have no doubt Russia is a shitty neighbor just as we are shitty neighbors to those around us. Your choices were also shitty but the one you choose to get in bed with won't turn out well for you. And when they desert you, and they will, you'll be even worse off than if you had chosen Russia.
Our choices were our self determination
You support Palestine because Israel is committing genocide against them I presume. Or it just accomplishes an agenda for you to support them.
If you support Palestine, then how could you apologise for Russia? We are in the same situation. If the only reason you’re supporting palestine is to accomplish an agenda then you aren’t a supporter of them.
Wanna know how I know? If you oppose ALL war – ALL oppression, no matter the history, then you’d support us. However, Ukraine serves no political agenda besisdes isolationism, so why support us? We aren’t America’s love child, so we don’t exist. Its horribly hypocritical. I never assume the worst out of anyone but I hope you genuinely care for these people besides an agenda.
“If you oppose ALL war – ALL oppression, no matter the history, then you’d support us.”
If by “us” you mean “the Ukrainian regime,” no.
If you oppose ALL war — ALL oppression, no matter the history,” then you’d oppose all regimes, because war is what regimes do.
Ultimately, the current war is over whether Putin’s gang or Zelenskyy’s gang gets to be the ranchers that treat certain pieces of land as their ranch and certain people as their livestock.
My sympathy is with the civilian non-combatants everywhere. They are not, and shouldn’t be treated as, livestock.
It is our sovereign territory – not a farmland. If Mexico re annexed Texas or Arizona or New Mexico from you guys and Canada annexed New England I doubt you’d just see it as farmland.
My sympathy is with the Ukrainians and our brothers under Russian occupation – not for the average Russian. They’ve wrought this war upon themselves. They vote in the guy waging this war.
To regimes, it’s all farmland — and we’re the livestock.
Doubt all you like, but yes, I’d think the same thing if it was Mexico annexing Texas or Arizona or New Mexico (all of which were part of Mexico before the US occupied and annexed them), or if it was Canada annexing New England )(there was a bit of fighting about those borders at one time, too).
Or, more to the point, if Spain announced that it was renewing its old claim on Florida (where I live).
Would I prefer that you get to be the livestock of the rancher you prefer, if you have to be livestock? Sure.
But, as Manuel O’Kelly put it, “‘sovereign’ is a word in the dictionary between ‘sober’ and ‘sozzled.'” I don’t support the cult of Putin, or the cult of Zelenskyy, or the cult of Biden, etc.
when referring to russia can I say Orcs of Mordor Federation
Last chance. You can stop doing that, or you can be banned.
but im referring to a literaery work!!??
Ok fine
i agree with all of it except cult of zelenskyy but it warrents my thumbs up nonetheless
First of all the comparison between what is happening in Gaza and what is happening in Ukraine isn't even close. Palestine isn't being backed by the superpower, Ukraine is. Palestine is basically defenseless and there is no genocide going on in Ukraine. So no, you are NOT in the same situation.
I don't apologize for Russia. But the encroachment of NATO on her borders and the attempts to destroy their economy since the end of the cold war are real things. Add to those the US "involvement" in the 2014 situation (I won't call it a coup) and the constant war games on their borders that had no end in sight made Russia's invasion inevitable in my opinion.
I do support the people of Ukraine. That's why I keep telling you that the US DOESN"T. They are using you to weaken Russia and they'll desert you when they feel they have pushed Russia as far as they can. I hate seeing your country destroyed while our politicians delight in the fact that it was a "good investment". I seem to care more about your people more than your leadership does.
This from today:
But there’s still no sign that a peace summit involving Russian and Ukrainian officials is being planned, and the US isn’t expected to support any efforts toward peace, at least before the November election.
See? Priorities.
We probably would’ve stayed neutral if Russia didn’t invade us or infringe on us anyways
"Hopefully Trump changes his mind on us." He will not. Trump will sacrifice Ukraine to prove a point.
Ok timmy
Who cares about the Ukrainians? NOBODY, the hegemon in Washington said Putin must go, they will not negotiate with Putin, his secretary of defense Austin said, Russia must be weakened. That was not in the interest of the Ukrainians, not even in the worst dreams of the neo-Nazis. What was it they did expect anyway, a paradise on earth as a NATO member?
We have our friends in Europe. All your isolationalists are right; you ARE an ocean away! So go home! Europe a nation! Free from you guys!
"Trump Says If Harris Wins, Israel Will No Longer Exist!" Dude! Well done! Harris, how do you respond? …She says, Trump is Putin's agent. …IKR? It's an oldy but still works.
They each have to lie about the other, because the truth (that they are both bought and paid for by billionaires) is way too depressing
Agreed, but I don’t think it can get more depressing, my friend.
It can.
Yeah, Netanyahu could've been born in the USA. If so, I would be greatful to be at war instead of living under Bibi
He was born in the USA, he lived in Pittsburgh.
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I don't believe you have a uniparty like some of your rightist agitators suggest, but both of your parties hide behind a big clear banner of Corporate State Fascistic wage labour and exploitation.
We have one party with a right and left wing for the appearance of democracy. Both wings are funded by the same wealthy power brokers and their lobbyists write the laws to suit their business, like Banking, the MIC, the Medical industrial complex and more. The Democrats dropped their constituents a long time ago. They did nothing when unions were demonized and destroyed as well as socialism. Neoliberal economics is the ugly face of greed, winner take all is there virtue and morals, no matter how they win.
Yup its quite sad
I wish you guys luck
But Netanyahu likes Trump more than Putin does.
You may be correct. It was Trump who pulled the U.S. out of the INF treaty, then followed up with negating he Open Skies agreement that was in place since the Eisenhower administration. Putin expressed his displeasure at those moves.
W. Bush started it.
Dec. 13, 2001
In a move that reflected what he said was “a vastly different world,” President Bush formally announced today that the United States was withdrawing from the Antiballistic Missile Treaty that it signed with the Soviet Union in 1972.
Trump continued, and they never stopped, they ended all nuclear Arms treaties. They treated the responsibilities of heads of state like spoiled brats playing with matches. Despicable Trump and Harris are the same.
A carnival with rival ring masters. Hilarious if it were not so sad.
This November I might write in Pedro…………..
Why not? After all, who WOULDN’T want all their wildest dreams to come true?
Why bother to vote — all parties are auditioning for Israel’s approval. Why not let Israel vote to select US president. The whole charade might be cheaper that way.
Point taken
Now consider how many million of US morons actually believe the BS that drips daily out of Trump's mouth, to the point of considering him their SAVIOR.
This is why America is doomed – its stupid people.
OTOH, Trump is right: Israel won't exist – under anyone's Presidency. Israel is as doomed as America. It always was – as was America.
The ruling elite are unbelievably stupid megalomaniacs. Mad dogs.
"…claimed that if Vice President Kamala Harris wins in November, Israel will no longer exist."
If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.
What Trump intentionally fails to mention, is that under his next administration and Project 2025, everything and everyone not Christian (including Judaism) becomes distantly second-class citizens. At best. Under P2025 it would become legal for anyone, businesses especially, to discriminate against anyone on religious grounds. Guess who that nonsense "my religion says your kind killed Christ" horses**t gets used against under P2025.
Nobody should fool themselves into thinking that a) "Judeo-Christian" is an actual thing OR an actual alliance, and b) that "Judeo-Christian" is anything more than a trope by which those two Abrahamic religions gang up together against the third Abrahamic religion.
Religions and gods result from the inventions of a caste in order to dominate the masses of people.
So it would seem. Use of fear to keep the masses under a grand delusion.
There are 1.9 billion who cite Islam as their religion. Only 14.7 million who claim Judaism. That’s the reason for the unholy alliance.
Judeo Christian beliefs is all BS because we were prosecuted too much. Just Christian beliefs. And I pained myself to read the Trumpist Manifesto. I had to translate half the words in there. English language master's degree type sh*t. I bet Trump had to search up some definitions when he read it as well. But yeah, it really is quite dystopian. Christian Nationalism is just as evil as Zionism; making a state religion. Its quite cowardly and sad and genuinley makes me worried for Amerika.
All these far-right agitators in your country are no better than the leftist corporate facsists- maybe even worse. I cringe when they say they're "free speech absolutists." The only speech they think should be free is speech supporting them. Like book bans? There's 2 freedoms. Positive freedom is freedom from outside interference and freedom to do what you want as long as it's not illegal.. Negative freedom is freedom from your own fears or things you don't like(I might have f'ed up those definitions). Elon and all his other tech-bros want negative freedom.
TL;DR: I feel bad for America, right-wing tech bros are as evil, if not more evil, than those on the left because they're openly Christian Nationalist, which is as evil as Zionism, and corporate fascists. Also, they came up with Judeo Christians beliefs from their asses since i'm calling BS on these guys giving an f about Jewish beliefs.
So what? East Germany no longer exists either.
Yes, the unification was possible based on real statesmen, diplomacy, patients, time and good will on both sides.
There is non of this now. Diplomacy is one big NO, NO.
It was Reagan's Secretary of State, James Baker, who voiced his displeasure at Israel's leaders. It was Reagan who formed a working relationship with Gorbachev, effectively ending the Cold War, also promising that NATO would not move "one inch East", which was violated by every President since Reagan. I am not a fan of Reagan for other things that he approved of, but I believe has proved to be a superior statesman than those Presidents who followed him, the worst, in my opinion, being Bill Clinton.
I think Biden is the worst ever, but he has the dementia excuse. The party elite picked him, they are guilty, they knew he was not fit to be president. only MHO
“In 1969, Brandt was elected chancellor and retained the post in the general election of 1972. His main policy was that of ‘Ostpolitik’, as he tried to create closer ties between West and East Germany and improve relations with Poland and the Soviet Union. In Germany, Brandt’s ‘Ostpolitik’ was controversial, but in 1971 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace for his work.”
Willy Brandt started the OSTPOLIK and he deserves more credit than he gets. Reagan was openminded and a statesman, not perfect, but who is? He continued the OSTPOLITIK, and he deserves all the credit he gets. They were real statesmen on both sides willing to end the cold war as you posted and yes, nothing but failures after that.
The Trump campaign sure has a weird strategy, accusing Kamala Harris of things no one believes and no one cares about. He might as well also accuse her of being the tooth fairy. Or Santa Claus.
Don't underestimate Trump weird strategy, it worked once so it might work again. And if one thinks Biden was bad for Palestinians, what do y0u think Trump 2.0 will be like? "We have to win, and we will win fast"
So, why would you be against Trump? You've been cheerleading the mass slaughter of Palestinians for 11 months running.
Tim is not real, as you point out, how can he justify and cheerlead the mass slaughter of the Palestinians for 11 months running and not support Trump or Harris?
Just ignore him. He's white noise who goes where the wind blows
Classic liberal. Pretend you were always on the right side of politics.
I am against Trump, because I believe he bad for the USA. I put my country first in international politics. Do you?
Trump is no worse, or better, than anything the democrats trot out. So, your nonsense about putting the US "first in international politics" (whatever the fuck that means) is just that, nonsense.
Trump said that Israel needed to "finish the job". To me, he means for Israel to kill them all.
I'm not sure exactly what he means, but it is not good for Palestinians.
Since when did you care about some subhumans on the other side of the world dying?
ps: subhumans was sarcastic. I hope you guys realise this, but my english professor in ukraine told me that "i can never be sure if people will"
That is what Netanyahu means, and Trump does know that.
Didnt realise timmy is a trumpie as well
It doesn't matter who wins the WH, and hasn't for a long time. The best thing we could hope for is an as near to zero turnout as it can get.
I hope Trump is correct, and I hope Harris wins };-)>
i hope america finds someone logical and is not standing for corporate fascism or has a direct tichet to the pants of AIPAC
Trump's new one-liner about how Israel would no longer exist under harris could help Harris.
QUITE INadvertently
Trump's foreign policies last time around are a horror story we still pay for. The same is true for domestic policies. Never the less, can he or Harris be worse than Biden/Harris? We have had a train of bad administrations over decades but Biden beats all of them. And Harris does not waste a thought on the burden she would inherit if she wins.
For her life has been a joy that is all she knows. She is all joy because she is woman with no substance.
Precisely the same description Norman Finkelstein has said about Harris. NO substance. There ain't nothing there.
What would Trump do different, he is serving Israeli interests as directed by neocons and Zionists the same as Biden, Harris and Trump and all the politicians in Washington, the Tel Aviv mad dogs rule a pack of mad dogs.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza received no food aid in August. How can people justify and support so much inhumanity?
Vote for me and I'll set you free.
I'd have to get American sitizenship to do so, but consider me with you
As usual, Trump is full of more sh*t than a Christmas goose. Harris is married to Doug Emhoff, for Christ's sake!
Trump does not know much, but he must know that the mad dogs in Tel Aviv are in charge, regardless who wins the presidency. He would dance to their music just like Biden or Harris would and he did when he was president.
We need to pray to God, please dear God, let it rain brain. We need it badly.
Hmm. This of course is not true. But Trump must know that he is giving Kamala free advertising and many misguided votes.
Yeah this may push Kamala more over the edge than she already is in your guys's America.