CenterBHSFan

Do you think NATO, US and Ukraine might have participated with some maneuvers over the years that instigated Russia, or crossed a stated line of tolerance? Or do you think that Putin just wants to reenact what Potempkin did centuries ago?

I personally don't give a damn about Ukraine. Never have, never will. Especially when America is sinking under a number of crisis's of our own. Hunger, gang violence, homelessness, wildly outdated infrastructure, addiction in previously unseen numbers, vast crippling mental illness, and so on. We need that money here more than some other country. Not Israel, not Ukraine.

Here.

Soup has to have an element of the savory for at least one component. Usually that comes from broth/stock (which shoehorns a meat) and or a vegetable, along with some spice or herb that enhances the dominate flavor. So a soup encompasses a wide variety of foods from pumpkin to beef.

A stew, gumbo or chowder has some sort of thickener but applies the same principle as soup. 

Hot dogs are essentially a hoagie, which is a type of sandwich.

I demand... yes, demand... that this thread be hidden away, because I could not stop myself from clicking on it. If you don't hide it, I won't be your friend anymore!

Cereal is not soup. Divorce your batshit crazy wife. 

posted by majorspark

One has to ask himself.  Why the campus protest rage on Israel while Russia openly targets civilians literally razing many cites to the ground.  Why do these "protesters" bring down US flags and raise a foreign one in its place.  We all know .

I've had similar thoughts. Where was all the protesting when Zelensky was doing photo shoots for Vanity Fair and going to Hollywood award shows while his people were being slaughtered? Where were all these protests when Hamas baked infants and cut their heads off? 

It's anti-Semitism disguised as anti-Zionism.

People would be better off sending their kids to the Hare Krishna's, saving a lot of money and a ton of shame.

posted by QuakerOats

As if anyone on the left cares or will report about it. 

They should care about it because that is an easily turned table. 

Unfortunately we have watched a two tier justice system at play for a number of years now. Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden are allowed to do a thing and not have anything come of it. Trump does the same thing and gets prosecuted for it with staged and manipulated "evidence". 

Marjory Taylor Green and Jasmine Crockett devolving into catty fights makes me ponder if women in Congress was a mistake.

Hey uh

Is the NY prosecutor /trying/ to throw this trial?

posted by Heretic

Totally looking forward to the potential Biden-Trump debates. Good chance it will be the least coherent debate in the history of debating, but regardless of how moronic and out of it both guys act, their groupies will act like their guy ran circles around the other and showed true leadership and whatever.

I like a few things about the proposed setup like the turning off of mics when time is up and no studio audience. What I don't like is Biden's only wanting corporate media there that he knows will give him a favorable portrayal. 

Although it will never happen it would be nice to see CNN, FOX and some independent media televising it. Also a purely independent fact checker with no ties to a political party would be nice. It would also be nice if all notes and teleprompters were banned so people can sketch for themselves just how much mental acuity each man can present. 

So it has come out that the FBI not only staged evidence of classified documents from mar a lago, but it was also manipulated.  Jack Smithsaid he doesn't know how or why or who, but he admitted that he lied to the FISA for this to happen.

WTF

And speaking of Ukraine, they say that somehow $40bil got disappeared.

Hah!

posted by iclfan2

Biden now holding intel back from Israel to continue to try and save votes. Intel that could result in the death of the head of Hamas. Quite the strategy.

I never wanted the US to finance either the Ukraine war or the Israel vs Hamas war. Withholding intelligence will just have the result of more indiscriminate violence upon civilians, which goes against part of which the Dems have stated what their grievance is. The other part is, of course, that Israel doesn't have the right to exist (but not many have openly admitted that yet, as far as I know). 

But that's ok! We will just give more money to Ukraine to keep up the civilian kill count! 

So I think the majority of people in the US have had it with all of the Spooks floating within our government, pulling the strings of Presidents and other politicians, most notably in DC. It doesn't help matters that our Congress has effectively become the lapdogs of these unelected groups of Spooks. I can't remember the name of the person who gave a speech that basically stated the our Congress has basically given their duties over to unelected officials/bureaucrats. 

Stephen Miller, former Trump official, has just won a court case where he sued the administration and got one of the smaller groups of Spooks dissolved. This group was an 'advisory panel' for the DHS. They have a month to fully dissolve.

This doesn't seem like a big deal at first glance. But now that people have seen it can be done, I wonder if more of these actions will take place and eventually erode a large portion, if not all, of the bureaucratic powers.

Thoughts?

posted by iclfan2

Didn’t Trump get impeached for withholding congressional voted on money to Ukraine? Biden giving in to the pro terrorist leftists will most likely only hurt himself.  Israel is not going to just stop their fight bc we don’t give them weapons. 

Well more pundits on the blue side of the aisle are finally coming to the point, which is this: they don't believe that Israel has the right to exist. And because they don't believe that Israel should exist, they justify what Hamas is doing and support "from the river to the sea". 

Congress isn't helping matters by wanting to make anti-zionism the equal of anti-Semitism. Essentially planting the seeds of being critical of Israel is a hate crime. 

While I personally believe that Israel has the right to exist, I'd much rather have the Dem fanatics showcase who and what they are so that the rest of us can counter reason with them/debate, and better prepare on who we decide to vote for in the future. This authoritarian action of silencing dissenting views and/or ugly talk doesn't serve the greater good of anything. And this is a perfect example of how the Republicans in power are actually complicit in the fuckery. I just don't think they are astute enough to comprehend it. 

Silencing, suppressing and censoring never has the intended goal. And so further disintegration happens. 

posted by justincredible

lmao, of course she is.

I did a quick search and found that this lady, who refused to reveal her name, is named Johannah King-Slutzky.

She is a paid instructor & PhD candidate at Columbia studying "theories of the imagination & poetry as interpreted through a Marxian lens"

No, I'm not making this up. https://t.co/CTZ8sbR7cx

— Jordan Schachtel @ dossier.today (@JordanSchachtel) April 30, 2024

I approve of how part of her name is "SLUTzky". My inner Beavis and Butthead is gonna laugh about that for ages!

posted by Heretic

Fun Fact: I figured this out yesterday. Was wondering why I hadn't seen certain threads in a while and clicked on the tab to see if they'd all gone cold, since I was pretty sure at least a few of them should have been on the first couple pages of threads.

Now I know! Like 2-3 weeks after the fact. I'm a quick one, I am!

I asked about this but no mod, admin or owner thought it was worthy of being answered. I reposted it also but no answer. I can only deduce that Justin wants to slow down traffic even more in an effort to kill the site.

So Biden's campaign has announced that from now on, his speeches will be short. They are saying that "less is more".

posted by Heretic

So, in the grand scheme of things, how much of an impact will Noem's utter disaster of a book have on her aspirations to be anything more than the governor or house/senate member of a minor league state?

Seems she was going all in on an "I'm a tough person who makes tough decisions out of a position of strength!" angle and completely fucked it up because:

1. The average person doesn't look at someone saying "Well, I just couldn't get that dog trained, so I took it out back and shot it but good! And then put a bullet in a goat, too, because fuck that thing!" as a reason to want them in a prominent position.

2. It also doesn't help to include a "witty" anecdote of how you stared down chubby North Korea guy because your youth pastor training taught you to not be intimidated by tiny dictators when it takes virtually no time at all to determine that you never actually met chubby North Korea guy.

On one hand, her attempt at using a book to portray herself as tough enough for an office like VP or Trump's cabinet didn't really do much other than make her look like a toxic idiot. On the other, it's only early May and odds are there will be about 20 stupid, insane things that overshadow this happening before we even think about going into the voting booth. At minimum.

I haven't looked much into the Noem hoopla yet. Yet. 

But honestly she can't be any worse than a thieving gender queer guy in charge of nuclear waste.

It does seem to me that the number of "courage lies" are growing. Do these people not understand by now that their chances of being exposed as a farce are pretty high? If the media neglects it's job as the fourth estate , don't worry because a bunch of autists on Reddit will be on the case!

I still have my SNES with several of the games for it like Illusion of Gaia and Zelda:LttP. Not getting rid of any of them.

I also still have my old Myst games, though it's been decades since I've played them.

Preface:

In the 1800's the slow to change and often stagnant Catholic church finally acknowledged that it was bad to castrate children and vowed to stop bringing them into the Sistine Choir. By 1902 that process was almost complete. 

In West Virginia, yes West-by-God-Virginia, a small group of middle school kids protested competing against a trans girl and were subsequently told that they were banned from future competitions. That states AG has taken up the case.

In Montana, the state took a teen out of their home against their parents will because the parents didn't really believe that their child was trans and wanted to "wait and see". It's akin to the state taking the child because the parents are Nazarene but the child wants to convert to Methodist.

Is there no end to this regressive idea? Should the state have that sort of power over children? And just how are people being so accepting of the state claiming ownership of children?

So I guess Trump was invited to the LP convention and he accepted. Not sure wtf they were thinking to invite him, though. My guess is that a lot of people will think that the LP is selling out. 

For myself, I would lean into their ideology much much more if they could nail down a better consensus amongst themselves. In fact, I would bet that a lot of people would jump ship out of the duopoly if the LP could manage to do that. But since they haven't progressed that much in this particular area people are unsure and largely ignorant. 

Perhaps the organizers are trying to expand their ideas using Trump as a free billboard. Perhaps they are trying to attract the politically homeless. Who the hell knows. 

But we can all probably agree that the corporate medias are most likely to organize with each other to relentlessly focus and attack the LP, which would put it further into shambles.

Or maybe I'm completely wrong and this move will have the opposite effect.

Thoughts?